刚才这个林镇长都说他 耽误不起了
“Mr. Lin just said he can't afford the delays.”
THE DIALOGUE REEL
大家都不行了啊
“None of us can keep this up.”
刚才 这个 林镇长 都说 他 耽误不起 了
“Mr. Lin just said he can't afford the delays.”
我呢
“As for me, I need to go to Shenzhen.”
“Even the boss is losing patience, so we have no excuse to stall any longer.”
In Chinese bureaucratic or corporate contexts, referencing a superior's direct distress or instruction is a common tactic to break deadlock and urge immediate action.
LEARNING CHUNKS & PARTICLES
cannot afford to delay or waste time
Use this potential complement pattern when the stakes are too high to allow procrastination.
Indicates a new, critical change of situation where time has run out.
VOCABULARY & EXPRESSIONS
Parallel Spoken Cinema Scenes (语义近邻切片)
“I misspoke just now.”
“What did we people of Lin'an do wrong?”
“Terribly wrong.”
“Do you know what you did wrong today?”
“You've got the wrong person.”
“I admit I misjudged him this time.”